Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Irregularity; deviation from rule or right; inordinateness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Deviation from custom, rule, or right; irregularity; inordinacy.
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- noun obsolete
Deviation fromcustom ,rule , orright ;irregularity .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It remains to point out the moral crookedness, inordination, and unreasonableness, that is intrinsic to the act of suicide, apart from its consequences.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888
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We find the inordination in this, that suicide is an act falling upon undue matter, being an act destructive of that which the agent has power over only to preserve.
Moral Philosophy Joseph Rickaby 1888
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Every inordination of religion that is not in defect is properly called superstition.
Pearls of Thought Maturin Murray Ballou 1857
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By lust the apostle here means, not that particular inordination or vice that relates to the uncleanness of the flesh; but that general stock of corruption that possesses the whole soul through all its respective faculties.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. V. 1634-1716 1823
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But the schoolmen and casuists having too much philosophy to go about to clear a lie from that intrinsic inordination and deviation from right reason inherent in the nature of it, and yet withal unwilling to rob the world, and themselves especially, of so sweet a morsel of liberty, held that a lie was indeed absolutely and universally sinful; but then they held also, that only the pernicious He was a mortal sin, and the other two were only venial.
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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